• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.383-392
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• 2022

Although pipelines are composed of segmental tubes commonly connected by rubber gasket or push-in joints, current studies mainly simplified pipelines as continuous structures. Effects of joints on three-dimensional deformation mechanisms of existing pipelines due to tunnel excavation are not fully understood. By conducting three-dimensional numerical analyses, effects of pipeline burial depth, tunnel burial depth, volume loss, pipeline stiffness and joint stiffness on bending strain and joint rotation of existing pipelines are explored. By increasing pipeline burial depth or decreasing tunnel cover depth, tunneling-induced pipeline deformations are substantially increased. As tunnel volume loss varies from 0.5% to 3%, the maximum bending strains and joint rotation angles of discontinuous pipelines increase by 1.08 and 9.20 times, respectively. By increasing flexural stiffness of pipe segment, a dramatic increase in the maximum joint rotation angles is observed in discontinuous pipelines. Thus, the safety of existing discontinuous pipelines due to tunnel excavation is controlled by joint rotation rather than bending strain. By increasing joint stiffness ratio from 0.0 (i.e., completely flexible joints) to 1.0 (i.e., continuous pipelines), tunneling-induced maximum pipeline settlements decrease by 22.8%-34.7%. If a jointed pipeline is simplified as a continuous structure, tunneling-induced settlement is thus underestimated, but bending strain is grossly overestimated. Thus, joints should be directly simulated in the analysis of tunnel-soil-pipeline interaction.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.965-972
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• 2018

In deep braced excavations, struts and walers play an essential role in the whole supporting system. For multi-level strut systems, accidental strut failure is possible. Once a single strut fails, it is possible for the loads carried from the previous failed strut to be transferred to the adjacent struts and therefore cause one or more struts to fail. Consequently, progressive collapse may occur and cause the whole excavation system to fail. One of the reasons for the Nicoll Highway Collapse was attributed to the failure of the struts and walers. Consequently, for the design of braced excavation systems in Singapore, one of the requirements by the building authorities is to perform one-strut failure analyses, in order to ensure that there is no progressive collapse when one strut was damaged due to a construction accident. Therefore, plane strain 2D and three-dimensional (3D) finite element analyses of one-strut failure of the braced excavation system were carried out in this study to investigate the effects of one-strut failure on the adjacent struts.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.95-103
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• 1995

In this paper the stress redistribution around tunnel face was analyzed by using a three-dimensional finite element model. The effects of in-situ stress levels, excavation sequences, stiffness difference between the hard ground and the weak zone on the stress redistributions were considered. Displacement and stress changes at tunnel crown, side wall, and invert were investigated throughout the sequential excavation. To show ground response, percentage of the displacement and stress variations are used as a function of normalized distance that is between the face and monitoring section. Preceding displacements and stress variations were presented to be adopted in the two-dimensional tunnel analysis.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.475-483
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• 2016

지하공동 굴착현장에서 관찰되는 절리분포 양상에 대한 자료를 기반으로 굴착과정에서 형성될 수 있는 사면체 블록의 형상, 규모 및 붕락 가능성을 절리 영속성을 고려하여 예측하는 수치해석 기법을 개발하였다. 절리 영속성 분석결과를 이용하여 절리면의 확장성에 따른 개착면에서의 표출정도 및 블록형성 가능성 해석을 수행하는 기능을 고안하여 기존에 개발된 결정론적 3차원 블록해석모델에 접목시켰다. 개선된 수치해석모델의 신뢰성을 고찰하기 위하여 실제 블록 붕락이 발생된 굴착현장에 대한 해석을 수행하였다. 조사된 절리분포 양상에 의거하여 대표 방향성을 설정하고 잠재적 블록 형성을 분석하여 붕락된 블록 형상에 부합된 해석 결과를 도출하였으며, 이에 근거하여 굴착과정에서의 붕락 진행 미캐니즘을 블록형상을 고려하여 고찰하였다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.427-443
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• 2023

Across the globe, rapid urbanization demands the construction of basements for car parking and sub way station within the vicinity of high-rise buildings supported on piled raft foundations. As a consequence, ground movements caused by such excavations could interfere with the serviceability of the building and the piled raft as well. Hence, the prediction of the building responses to the adjacent excavations is of utmost importance. This study used three-dimensional numerical modelling to capture the effects of twin excavations (final depth of each excavation, H_e=24 m) on a 20-storey building resting on (4×4) piled raft. Because the considered structure, pile foundation, and soil deposit are three-dimensional in nature, the adopted three-dimensional numerical modelling can provide a more realistic simulation to capture responses of the system. The hypoplastic constitutive model was used to capture soil behaviour. The concrete damaged plasticity (CDP) model was used to capture the cracking behaviour in the concrete beams, columns and piles. The computed results revealed that the first excavation- induced substantial differential settlement (i.e., tilting) in the adjacent high-rise building while second excavation caused the building tilt back with smaller rate. As a result, the building remains tilted towards the first excavation with final value of tilting of 0.28%. Consequently, the most severe tensile cracking damage at the bottom of two middle columns. At the end of twin excavations, the building load resisted by the raft reduced to half of that the load before the excavations. The reduced load transferred to the piles resulting in increment of the axial load along the entire length of piles.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2010년도 춘계 학술발표회
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• pp.811-818
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• 2010

This paper presents the results of a numerical investigation on behavior of deep excavation wall system supported by steel pipe struts. A series of three-dimensional finite element analyses were carried out on a deep excavation project site which adopted steel pipe struts. The results indicated that the mechanical behavior of steel pipe supported deep excavation is comparable to that of a conventional H-pile supported deep excavation, although the steel pipe supported system is required less number of struts than the conventional H-pile strut system. Also shown is that the sectional stresses of the steel pipe support system are within the allowable values implying that the steel pipe support system can be effectively used as an alternative to conventional H-pile support system.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.41-58
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• 2016

This paper focuses on the deformation behavior of tunnels crossing a weak zone in conventional tunneling. A three-dimensional finite element model was adopted that allows realistic modeling of the tunnel excavation and the support installation. Using the 3D FE model, a parametric study was conducted on a number of tunneling cases with emphasis on the spatial characteristics of the weak zone such as the strike and dip angle, and on the initial stress state. The results of the analyses were thoroughly examined so that the three-dimensional tunnel displacements at the tunnel crown and the sidewalls can be related to the spatial characteristic of the weak zone as well as the initial stress state. The results indicate that the effectiveness of the absolute displacement monitoring data as early warning indicators depends strongly on the spatial characteristics of the weak zone. It is also shown that proper interpretation of the absolute monitoring data can provide not only early warning for a weak zone outside the excavation area but also information on the orientation and the extent of the weak zone. Practical implications of the findings are discussed.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.245-259
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• 2003

Refering to the articles "Squeezing rocks in tunnels(Barla, 1995)" and "Tunnelling under squeezing rock conditions(Barla 2002)" this article deals with technologies for design, stability analysis and construction of the tunnel being driven in the squeezing rock mass. The definition of this type of behavior was proposed by ISRM(1994). The identification and quantification of squeezing is given according to both the empirical and semi-empirical methods available to anticipate the potential of squeezing problems in tunnelling. Based on the experiences and lessons learned in recent years, the state of the art in modem construction methods was reported, when dealing with squeezing rock masses by either conventional or mechanical excavation methods. The closed-form solutions available for the analysis of the rock mass response during tunnel excavation are described in terms of the ground characteristic line and with reference to some elasto-plastic models for the given rock mass. Finally numerical methods were used for the simulation of different models and for design analysis of complex excavation and support systems, including three-dimensional conditions in order to quantify the influence of the advancing tunnel face to the deformation behavior of the tunnel.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.476-485
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• 2003

본 연구의 목적은 막장전방에 파쇄대가 존재할 때 터널 3차원 내공변위를 여러 가지 방법으로 해석하여 변위의 변화 경향을 밝히고 지질변화를 예측하는 계측해석기법을 제시하는 것이다. 안정된 지하 암반에 터널을 굴착하게 되면, 터널 막장면을 포함한 무지보 굴착면 주위에 3차원적인 하중전이 현상이 나타나는데 막장 전방의 지반 상태가 변화하거나 연약 파쇠대층이 존재하면 특정한 변위 경향을 보이는 것으로 기존 연구결과 알려져 있다. 터널 천단부 축방향 변위/수직변위 비 등으로부터 터널 막장 전방에서 지반의 강성이 변화하는 불연속면의 존재를 예측할 수 있다. 그러므로, 시공중인 터널 내에서 3차원 절대 내공 변위를 측정하여 본 연구에서 제시된 계측해석 기법을 적용하면 터널 막장 전방의 지층변화나 파쇄대층의 존재를 사전에 예측할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.109-118
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• 2007

굴착손상영역(EDZ)은 굴착으로 인해 현지 암반이 역학적으로 손상을 입게 되어 응력상태, 변위상태, 암반의 안정성, 지하수의 흐름상태 등에 변화가 일어나는 영역을 의미한다. EDZ의 역학적 특성과 관련한 많은 연구들이 수행되었지만, EDZ에서의 지하수 유동 특성에 관한 연구는 아직 부족한 수준이다. 본 연구에서는 굴착으로 인한 수리-역학 상호작용(coupling)에 의해 굴착면 주변의 수리적 간극값이 변하는 영역을 수리적 굴착 thstkdduddudr이라 정의하고, 이를 3차원 분리단열망(DFN)에 적용시켜 보았다. 이를 통해 수리적 간극변화가 3차원 불연속 망에서의 전반적인 지하수 유동에 미치는 영향을 파악하였다. 또한 3차원 DFN 지하수 유동 해석 시 주로 이용되는 수두 조건과 유량 조건의 적용성을 고찰하였다. 해석 결과 수리-역학적 상호거동에 의해 발생하는 굴착면 주변의 수리적 간극변화는 터널 내부로 유입되는 유량에 큰 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 DFN 해석 시 다양한 경계조건에 따른 상이한 결과를 토대로 보다 합리적인 경계조건 설정에 대한 방향을 제시하였다. 마지막으로 실제 현장에서 수리해석을 실시한 자료를 바탕으로 수리적 간극 값의 변화를 고려할 때와 고려하지 않을 때의 유입유량 차이를 통해, 3차원 지하공동의 지하수 유동해석 시 수리적 간극 값의 변화를 고려하는 것이 보다 더 보수적인 결과를 나타내는 것을 확인하였다.